That would be me - sick as a dog. I thought I’d been clever enough to get by this season without getting sick by drinking tons of those EmergenC drink packets. The kids had it over Thanksgiving and then Joe had it a few weeks ago and Ha! I had nothing! I was well, well, [...]

Here is what it looked like when we went to go get Joe from the airport on Friday night.

Here is what it looked like the next morning.

We drove home all day Sunday. I was a little worried about the weather but as we approached Southern Utah, I relaxed and the snow disappeared. I don’t like [...]

Here are the finished rings. The large one is my favorite and I’m going to keep it. That stone was particularly difficult and Robin had to help me (mostly do the whole thing) finish it. So instead of feeling bad that I couldn’t hack it on that one, I’m going to look at it like [...]

Today my friend taught me how to pick out a stone, create the bezel to fit the stone and solder the bezel to the base. Tomorrow I learn how to finish the rest like trimming and soldering on the finger band. Man, this is much harder than I realized and all my rings [...]